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  1. I'm in the AT&T Conference center attending SDC 2024 and they just announced that the Texas national guard has been mobilized to neutralize a riot near the convention, but by the time the conference is over they should be gone, but not to go "north on campus or just north of campus"

    LOL

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  2. 31 minutes ago, choripan said:

    This. My wife is [redacted] at [redacted], one of the leading thinktank/policy-type journals on AVs. She is also [redacted] at [redacted], one of the handful of leading test sites/fake "cities" where AVs are tested. She is an academic and not affiliated with any brand, like Tesla, MB, Ford, GM/Cruise, Google/Waymo, etc.

    At least in the US, it is Google/Waymo <gap> GM/Cruise <large gap> Ford and Tesla.

    The way I hear it talked about at dinner parties, mixers, etc., Tesla is not a serious contender to reach level 4, let alone level 5, and there are serious doubts that it can ever be level 3 with a camera only approach.

    VW and Mercedes not being mentioned by convenience of US based is nice. They are doing really really good work. 

  3. 1 minute ago, Horndog said:

    Instead of a fine, how about 10 hours of community service for each violation?  I would love to see the dotard wearing an orange jump suit picking up trash along the Hudson River.

    His time is worth more than that. I don’t think they would do that for pretty simple reasons that with the fine they could levy they could hire 10 people to do that hour of work. 

  4. 4 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    Gotta admit I could not stop laughing at the thought of the Republican nominee for president (and a former president) calling a NYT reporter named Maggie “Maggot” multiple times.  LMFAO.  At this point anyone who votes for that guy is an indefensible piece of shit.

    Has anybody done a deep dive into the logic he uses to decide which words to capitalize?

    I am excited to get to ~September when Trump can liquidate his shares.  

    Why would he liquidate. He will leverage them. It’s the play. 

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  5. If he goes to jail he’s not gonna fundraise shit. I think some of you have failed to realize how tapped out his base is. They have been grifted completely. DJT is the latest thing that may work against him. Now people feel like they are going to win when he wins - why just donate when you can buy DJT shares. Huge miscalculation. 

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  6. The judge is going to hold him in contempt. He did this on purpose since the judge didn’t come down hard today on it. I think he’s playing a game of fuck around and find out with someone who isn’t fucking around. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, NoName said:

    i think with the existing 9.95er landscape, there is 100% a place for that

    limited to no off topic data, super accessible "insiders", focus on sports not drama and bring a tremendous value for what you pay. you guys are set up to be in a great spot the closer we get to the fall - seriously.

    i would think there is a place for this concept at some of the other larger schools where folks ("insiders" and posters both) are fed up with the bullshit. give them a piece of the pie, let them do their job pretty straighforward and rock and roll.

    i know you are busy but when OTF shows it's level of success, and no clue what the end game is, you guys should absolutely reach out to some other people in the industry and spin this concept off for them using the lessons learned from starting up OTF

    The reason it works is because we only care about Texas football. The business is just around exactly what you said. We don’t want to help anyone else do it, cuz no other fan base is really like the Texas one. I think we often forget that Texas is the biggest brand in college athletics, especially football. There’s a handful of others that are in the same echelon, but only like 5 schools. The rest are just more about the college football aggregate than a standalone thing. 

    4 hours ago, tejas60 said:

    or, from Surlyhorns, right click the OTF thread and open in new tab...

    I need to see if I can just make the widget open in new tab for you. That would probably be better. 

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  8. 26 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws

    Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

    The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform.

     

    Police revealed that Musk, who says it is up to the public to decide what was true or not, had been fighting incest charges at the time of his death.

    His funeral is next week.

    ____

    This is an updated version of the article: Mark Zuckerberg – Dead at 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts

      Reveal hidden contents

     

    Was hoping it wasn’t. 

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  9. 12 minutes ago, ScottS said:

    Does every county court house have a passport office?  I just looked on the website for my county court house and did not see anything about a passport office.

    I live in a more rural county, so it would not totally surprise me if not every county court house has a passport office.

    I need to update my passport but I have no travel plans so this is not anything I need to do right away, but it is something I've been meaning to do and have been unable to overcome my inherent laziness.

    No they do not. We found out about the lampassas thing when we were trying to get my newborn the passport before he was 3 months old to go to Mexico 

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  10. 5 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

    UT international office does everything this office does. (And as @locodos says, so does your post office). I got my pic taken at the international office, but didn’t use them for anything else (I work at UT, and at the time they were temporarily located in Main, where my office is. Just filled out and printed out the forms online).

    Yeah, but the lines for those are insane and often 3+ hours 

  11. 8 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I will make sure to bump this thread and the one on Maalik in December.  We will see who is right.  I am not expecting much out of our 6th string running back who is 5'10" and 240 pounds with a fat gut.  Or the quarterback who makes Garrett Gilbert look accurate and poised in the pocket.  But for some weird reason you are a big fan boy of JAGs who transfer.

    But let me check to make sure I understand you.  You think Maalik is going to be good at Duke.  I don't.

    I also think Wisner is much, much better than Red.  You don't.

    Is that right?  Or is there some other point you were making here?

    oh no, you just have a strong opinion where I have no real opinion and just wish them well. I meant the temperature of your takes quite literally.

    I don't think they took away from the program or performed in a way that cost the program anything. I don't think they were dead weight or "JAG", but they definitely weren't good enough to have strong contributions here.

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  12. 3 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Alright well I went ahead and subbed to OTF

    @immamac their premium posts are showing on the home page feed but not on the individual forums like football and 9.95

    also if there could be a way to get back to surly from OTF that would be dope but I can see why that might be a nonstarter. Maybe a header button that only shows up for treefiddy members? 

    Oh I can probably do that with a menu item. 

  13. 1 minute ago, dieucla98 said:

    I assume you mean this in the Dave Chapelle "you hate to see it" gif, sense, right? Or am I missing something big?

    Yeah, bad for Donald trump. It really does seem like they’ve got a case that is so strong they are gonna go in no lube. This isn’t congress so it may be a lot different than what we’ve seen before. 

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  14. 10 hours ago, smwhorn said:

    Anybody ever made the drive from DTW to Ann Arbor the morning of an 11:00 am kickoff?

     

    Yes, it’s not bad if you aren’t trying to get there just for kick. Get there as early as you can and experience the tailgating. 

  15. 3 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

    Thanks Imma, jimmy, for your offers. I'm not local, so probably not going to work for me. Somebody won't pass it up though.

    SVS has a wireless adapter that is well reviewed, which is a start. A decent pair of powered speakers, or a small amp and passive ones, could potentially work.

    I'll most likely end up in the soundbar realm for now, but maybe not if I can find a decent receiver.

    Where are you send me a DM. I’m just returning it if no one wants it would rather it go to someone for such a good deal cuz I think they are just gonna trash it. 

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  16. 25 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

    So I'm in the middle of remodeling my living room. I'm down to working out the audio, and trying to figure out how to best accomplish what I'm after. Not going for perfect, just need something nice enough. For a quick overview, I'm going from a 75" Samsung with a Q60T soundbar/"sub"/(2)surround, to a 120" projector with something new for the audio.

    Looking in the $2k-ish range, overall. The bar I have now sounds alright, but the bass is lacking and you can tell it's a $400 soundbar vice more of a flagship-level model. So again, looking for something nice, but not audiophile-level scrutiny.

     

    Here's the layout, for reference:

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    Options so far:

    1) Nakamichi Shockwafe 9.2.4 Ultra EARC (Bar/(2)10" Subs/(2)Surround/(2)Rear)
    2) Samsung Q990C (Bar/Sub/(2)Surrounds)
    3) Klipsch Flexus Core 200 (With added sub/(2)surround)

     

    Then I got to thinking that maybe I could pull off an a/v receiver setup instead of a soundbar. Which is where I start to glaze over a bit, just from all the options available and not really knowing what is and isn't worth a shit. Video processing isn't really a needed thing, plenty of inputs on the projector. It might be useful down the road. This would increase the cost a bit, but I could also piecemeal the pieces together while using some stuff I have on-hand in the interim. (I have a good klipsch sub, and (4) so-so surrounds, and a meh center.) I could start out with a good center, maybe a pair of floors for front left/right. Then use the sub and 2 surrounds I already have to start.

    Now in the image, the only issue I have is how I would do the rear pair. I'm not keen on running wires, and doing something "permanent" like that. Surely there would be a way to run a wireless transmitter for those?

    I think my end goal would be a floor speaker on the left and right of the screen, up-firing speaker on top of each floor, a center channel, sub (maybe 2), then a pair of surround, and a pair of rears. Klipsch seems to have a good offering, and a good place to start.

    However, if using a transmitter isn't an option (and some type of amp for each speaker, I'm assuming) then I'll just go soundbar and work with that one way or another.

    So I guess the tl;dr of it all is this: Is there a way to have wireless rear speakers (up to 4) with an a/v receiver setup?

    I have a 990C for 860 bucks. it’s fucking great 

     

  17. 34 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    One of the jurors gets their news from Truth Social. He ain’t getting convicted 

    I’m now convinced the strategy was never to get this case to stick, just have enough to get this far and trump intimidate a witness or temper with a witness or something like that and get busted for that rather than this case. Crazy he played right into their trap. 

  18. 9 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    Missed game. Saw highlights.

    Surly gonna Surly after the Spring game.

    Owens should startz. 

    How did Trey Omeire look? I think this could be his break-out season! 

    I’m pretty sure he is the only person who didn’t make a catch. There were 24 different people who made a catch. 

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